.Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Strange Yet True Stories of 2008
Pepe Le Meow
A Pennsylvania cat lover got a smelly surprise when a neighbor's cat turned out to be a frightened skunk. Not only did the skunk spray the woman, but it ran into her Mount Carmel home. It took about several hours for emergency services officials to get the putrid pest out of the house.
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Historic Mistake
Two grammar-conscious vigilantes fighting against typos everywhere defaced a 6-decade-old, hand-painted sign at Grand Canyon National Park. But when it comes to marking up historic signs, the law says that good grammar is a bad defense. The two were sentenced to probation and banned from national parks for a year.
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A Capital of the World
Adolf Hitler's grand plans for world domination didn't stop with the extinction of the Jews. If the Nazi leader had had his way, it would have included transforming Berlin into the "capital of the world." Historians, after combing three vast tunnels opened recently under central Berlin, detailed Hitler's plans for a super city, dubbed "Germania." The city would have come complete with a vast underground network that would have included roads and a rail system. Above the surface, were plans for a series of huge buildings that would have rivaled the architecture of cities like Paris and Rome.
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Not Just Hanging Around
The morning commute got a little hairy after a slippery wild simian monkey showed up at a Tokyo train station. A standoff between police and the monkey developed at the Shibuya Station when about 30 cops, some with nets, chased the animal as commuters snapped photos with their cell phones. The monkey escaped and is currently still at large.
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Still Standing
He wanted to be known as a stand-up guy, even in death. To fulfill his last wish, the body of 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina, who was found dead underneath a bridge in Puerto Rico, was propped upright in the living room of his mother's San Juan home. A local funeral home used a special embalming treatment to keep the body standing upright for his three-day wake.
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Not-So-Sweet Surprise
A German candy story took the meaning of a sugar high to a whole new level when it was discovered that the shop's treats were laced with hallucinogenic mushrooms and marijuana. Police nabbed the 23-year-old owner of the shop and shuttered the place, leaving some to get their sugar fix elsewhere.
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Bumpy Landing
An elderly woman fell down a baggage chute after placing herself, rather than her bags, on the baggage belt. The woman, preparing to depart from Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport for Germany, misunderstood instructions and lied down on the belt and was swept off to the baggage handling center. There is a silver lining though: She managed to catch her flight.
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An Imperial Splash
It was loss of face -- and then some -- when a Western man decided to go skinny dipping in a moat ringing Japan's Imperial Palace. The man attracted a huge crowd in a busy Tokyo business district, and also the ire of two policemen who had to chase him in row boat and deflect the rocks and water the skinny dipper threw their way.
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A Wee Home Remedy
Who knew infant urine worked as an anti-inflammatory? World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko evidently swears by it. The Ukrainian boxer didn’t pull any punches about the way he soothes his fists after a big fight when he admitted wrapping his hands with his 3-year-old's urine-infused diapers to reduce swelling. He says he got the idea from his grandmother.
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Bozo in the Buff — all year long!
Multiple sclerosis is no laughing matter. But 16 graduates from the San Francisco's Clown Conservatory, looking to raise money for the disease, have managed get in some giggles by letting it all hang out.
The group unveiled its 2009 naked clown calendar, which features the jolly jokesters posing in nothing but their birthday suits.
Click here for more.
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A Pennsylvania cat lover got a smelly surprise when a neighbor's cat turned out to be a frightened skunk. Not only did the skunk spray the woman, but it ran into her Mount Carmel home. It took about several hours for emergency services officials to get the putrid pest out of the house.
Click here for more.
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Historic Mistake
Two grammar-conscious vigilantes fighting against typos everywhere defaced a 6-decade-old, hand-painted sign at Grand Canyon National Park. But when it comes to marking up historic signs, the law says that good grammar is a bad defense. The two were sentenced to probation and banned from national parks for a year.
Click here for more.
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A Capital of the World
Adolf Hitler's grand plans for world domination didn't stop with the extinction of the Jews. If the Nazi leader had had his way, it would have included transforming Berlin into the "capital of the world." Historians, after combing three vast tunnels opened recently under central Berlin, detailed Hitler's plans for a super city, dubbed "Germania." The city would have come complete with a vast underground network that would have included roads and a rail system. Above the surface, were plans for a series of huge buildings that would have rivaled the architecture of cities like Paris and Rome.
Click here for more.
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Not Just Hanging Around
The morning commute got a little hairy after a slippery wild simian monkey showed up at a Tokyo train station. A standoff between police and the monkey developed at the Shibuya Station when about 30 cops, some with nets, chased the animal as commuters snapped photos with their cell phones. The monkey escaped and is currently still at large.
Click here for more.
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Still Standing
He wanted to be known as a stand-up guy, even in death. To fulfill his last wish, the body of 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina, who was found dead underneath a bridge in Puerto Rico, was propped upright in the living room of his mother's San Juan home. A local funeral home used a special embalming treatment to keep the body standing upright for his three-day wake.
Click here for more.
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Not-So-Sweet Surprise
A German candy story took the meaning of a sugar high to a whole new level when it was discovered that the shop's treats were laced with hallucinogenic mushrooms and marijuana. Police nabbed the 23-year-old owner of the shop and shuttered the place, leaving some to get their sugar fix elsewhere.
Click here for more.
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Bumpy Landing
An elderly woman fell down a baggage chute after placing herself, rather than her bags, on the baggage belt. The woman, preparing to depart from Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport for Germany, misunderstood instructions and lied down on the belt and was swept off to the baggage handling center. There is a silver lining though: She managed to catch her flight.
Click here for more.
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An Imperial Splash
It was loss of face -- and then some -- when a Western man decided to go skinny dipping in a moat ringing Japan's Imperial Palace. The man attracted a huge crowd in a busy Tokyo business district, and also the ire of two policemen who had to chase him in row boat and deflect the rocks and water the skinny dipper threw their way.
Click here for more.
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A Wee Home Remedy
Who knew infant urine worked as an anti-inflammatory? World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko evidently swears by it. The Ukrainian boxer didn’t pull any punches about the way he soothes his fists after a big fight when he admitted wrapping his hands with his 3-year-old's urine-infused diapers to reduce swelling. He says he got the idea from his grandmother.
Click here for more.
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Bozo in the Buff — all year long!
Multiple sclerosis is no laughing matter. But 16 graduates from the San Francisco's Clown Conservatory, looking to raise money for the disease, have managed get in some giggles by letting it all hang out.
The group unveiled its 2009 naked clown calendar, which features the jolly jokesters posing in nothing but their birthday suits.
Click here for more.
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County-owned front-end loader breaks through ice UPDATE
Mike Raymond, who’s worked for the county for 27 years, was not supposed to have the loader on the ice, said Polk County Highway Engineer Rich Sanders. Raymond was cleaning snow from county-owned lots in town and made a detour to the public boat launch in Central Park. According to some bystanders watching attempts to pull the loader from the river, Raymond’s plan was to clear snow from around his ice-fishing house when the ice gave way.
The back end of a back-hoe operated by Dan Bertils comes off the ground as the tension increases on the chain hooked to the sunken front-end loader. The back-hoe was secured by another chain hooked to another front-end loader parked further up the boat ramp.Photo Gallery
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Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed
Bank robber busted after leaving behind own pay stub, FBI says
The note handed to a Fifth Third Bank teller Friday was clear enough (despite some language errors): "Be Quick Be Quit. Give your cash or I'll shoot."What was even clearer to FBI investigators examining the note was that they were not dealing with a criminal mastermind. The alleged robber, identified Monday as Thomas Infante, 40, of Cary, had written it on the back of his own pay stub, which helpfully provided the FBI with his name and home address."It's fairly unusual that we see something that specifically stupid," said FBI spokesman Ross Rice. "But overall, we see a lot of strange bank robberies."
His demand note, written inside the bank on a torn half of his pay stub, matched up with the other half, which was found outside the bank doors. The pieced-together stub showed Infante was paid $165.99 by Jewel Food Stores on Oct. 23, according to the FBI.
Infante was arrested at his Cary home and allegedly confessed to investigators, according to the FBI affidavit.
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Georgia Sex Offenders Must Hand Over Internet Passwords
A law is set to take effect in Georgia Thursday that requires sex offenders to hand over Internet passwords, screen names and e-mail addresses.
Georgia joins a small band of states complying with guidelines in a 2006 federal law requiring authorities to track Internet addresses of sex offenders. But the state is among the first to take the extra step of forcing its 16,000 offenders to turn in their passwords as well.
conviction on sex offenses but was never in Utah's court or prison system.
No one in Georgia has challenged the law yet. But critics say it threatens the privacy of sex offenders and places an additional burden on law enforcement officials.
State Sen. Cecil Staton, who wrote the bill, says the measure is designed to keep the Internet safe for children. Authorities could use the passwords and other information to make sure offenders aren't stalking children online or chatting with them about off-limits topics.
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The note handed to a Fifth Third Bank teller Friday was clear enough (despite some language errors): "Be Quick Be Quit. Give your cash or I'll shoot."What was even clearer to FBI investigators examining the note was that they were not dealing with a criminal mastermind. The alleged robber, identified Monday as Thomas Infante, 40, of Cary, had written it on the back of his own pay stub, which helpfully provided the FBI with his name and home address."It's fairly unusual that we see something that specifically stupid," said FBI spokesman Ross Rice. "But overall, we see a lot of strange bank robberies."
His demand note, written inside the bank on a torn half of his pay stub, matched up with the other half, which was found outside the bank doors. The pieced-together stub showed Infante was paid $165.99 by Jewel Food Stores on Oct. 23, according to the FBI.
Infante was arrested at his Cary home and allegedly confessed to investigators, according to the FBI affidavit.
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Georgia Sex Offenders Must Hand Over Internet Passwords
A law is set to take effect in Georgia Thursday that requires sex offenders to hand over Internet passwords, screen names and e-mail addresses.
Georgia joins a small band of states complying with guidelines in a 2006 federal law requiring authorities to track Internet addresses of sex offenders. But the state is among the first to take the extra step of forcing its 16,000 offenders to turn in their passwords as well.
conviction on sex offenses but was never in Utah's court or prison system.
No one in Georgia has challenged the law yet. But critics say it threatens the privacy of sex offenders and places an additional burden on law enforcement officials.
State Sen. Cecil Staton, who wrote the bill, says the measure is designed to keep the Internet safe for children. Authorities could use the passwords and other information to make sure offenders aren't stalking children online or chatting with them about off-limits topics.
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LYAO Commercial
The Wunder Boner.
Aired several years ago late night on OLN. Yes, It's 100% REAL!
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You steal alot of Your material.~Dak Rockson
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No I don't so call "Steal" material.
How much more do you want it has a "YouTube" right on the video.
And for news stories there is a "Hyperlink" in "Blue."
For the pictures they are also "Hyperlink" just click on them.
They maybe a few that doesn't have a link but every blog has them.
I have been on several blogs that don't have a single link so go after them.
On my header it says "Short and Simple" that also means no clutter.
If you haven't notice there are no advertising on this blog.
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Derek said...
It's not stealing- it's gathering different things from the internet and putting it together for us to view. Keep up the good work. I visit every day.
It's not stealing- it's gathering different things from the internet and putting it together for us to view. Keep up the good work. I visit every day.
Derek Toronto, Canada
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Wacky Laws Still on the Books in America
From changing the color of baby chicks to shooting effigies to properly honoring the glory of the log cabin, Americans have spent valuable legislative hours throughout the years making sure we're on the straight and narrow.
.As a New Year arrives, here are 10 wacky laws that remain on the books across the country:
1. In Billings, Mont., it is illegal for anyone to sell, harbor or give away rats as pets or toys for any purpose other than to feed snakes or birds of prey. Scientists, however, can keep lab rats.
2. Using profanity is against the law on playgrounds and in public parks in Columbia, Md.
3. The last Sunday in June each year is Log Cabin Day in Michigan.
4. In Michigan, it is legal to kill a dog for attacking chickens, livestock or people, but you can't snuff the pooch in a high altitude decompression chamber or by electrocution.
5. In West Virginia, anyone who taunts someone who decides not to participate in a duel or who declines to accept a challenge is guilty of a misdemeanor and can be sent to jail for up to six months and fined up to $100.
6. In Kentucky it is illegal to sell, exchange, offer to sell or exchange, display, or possess living baby chicks, ducklings, or other fowl or rabbits that have been dyed or colored. It is also illegal to dye or color baby chicks, ducklings, fowl or rabbits. And unless they are at least two months old, the aforementioned animals must be sold in batches of six.
7. At shooting ranges in Massachusetts, it is illegal to shoot at targets depicting a human -- whether as a figure, effigy or a silhouette -- unless you're a public safety officer performing official duties.
8. In Alabama it is against the law to alter the natural appearance of the teeth of a horse or mule to make the animal appear younger than it actually is.
9. In Alabama anyone performing a marriage rite is entitled to a fee of $2 per marriage.
10. In Alabama it is against the law to exploit a bear by promoting, engaging in or being employed at a bear wrestling match, or by subjecting a bear to surgical alteration of any kind, including, but not limited to, declawing, tooth removal and severing tendons.
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